i hope something makes you smile today 💌💕🌻🥰

A lot of people are radicalised by suffering, which is a valid and sadly all-too-common experience. But you wanna know what really radicalised me? Softness. Joy. Freedom. I spent so much of my adolescence deeply sad and uncomfortable in spaces that weren’t right for me, navigating a body that didn’t feel like home. Despite many many privileges, and lots of moments of genuine happiness, I often didn’t overall enjoy my life. But then I got gender-affirming surgery. I moved into my own modern, clean, comfortable flat in a friendly, walkable city full of nature and beautiful buildings. I started being able to take care of myself. I keyed into robust local social networks of people who shared my interests in nature, creativity and ameliorating the world. And I am deeply, thoroughly content. It has been incredibly radicalising to realise that, contrary to what I thought for so long, it is very easy for human beings to be happy if their material and emotional needs are fulfilled. So alongside my joy there’s this constant simmering rage. I deserve all the good things I have now, sure. But not any more or less than anyone else. The children being bombed deserve this too. So do the homeless people being moved on by police outside my local supermarket. So do the people starving in famines, imprisoned by immigration systems, brutalised by their employers, their families, the state. All I can do is fight for a world where everyone has these things. It’s a choice not to share them equitably.

Spring gives joy to us, over and over again. The season of rebirth, the freshness of newly blooming flowers fills the air. This newness fills us with excitement, as we see nature waking up. Welcome back my old friend.

K.S. Janes

colored that joy and mads doodle 👍( ◜‿◝ )👍

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Red Velvet - Bad Boy (2018) EXO - Ko Ko Bop (2017)

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JOY x Fresh for Allure Korea (May 2024)

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I'm here for love ྀི

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"I wish you joy" Jane Austen, from a letter to her brother Frank (26 July 1809)

horses relaxing and sleeping on the beach basking in the sun and the sand they are enjoying their time at the beach amongst humans in peaceful harmony with both man and nature